Friday, October 7, 2011

Bradbury: Love Story


Micael Moore, for lack of a better word, is a glutton. He feeds off of negativity and is the frontrunner (or should i say frontwalker) of any issue that is opposite of the government. If the government decided to give away free puppies to every seven year old girl in the country, Moore would find some issue with that. Like the politicians that Moore so vehemently opposes, he preys on the weak-minded and ignorant. His audience is blue collar men and women who feel they have been slighted by the government and he exploits them on camera. Remember the scene in Capitalism in which he shot a father reading a letter to his dead wife as the young children balled their eyes out? That had nothing to do with capitalism. It is merely a ruse to evoke an emotion from the audience. I hate to be the Negative Nancy here, but most of America eats up what Moore regurgitates because they are not informed on the whole situation. For instance, Moore lambastes Republican presidents for being in bed with big business when Clinton did the exact same thing. He hints at Obama turning America on its head and being the next coming of Jesus Christ when in reality he has done very little of what he originally proposed. In actuality, President Obama and Michael Moore are the same in that they are both full of hot air. I am bereaved to say that most Americans believe what Moore is saying in his films; and if you wade through enough of his crap you will find a valid point or two, such as that corporations including Lehman Brothers and the like did cripple Americas economy. Where I find the issue is that Moore presents his arguments the way he eats his meals, he shoves them down the audiences throat. Michael Moore does not give his opposition one once of credit. Throughout my twelve years of catholic school education, I have learned how to write a decent academic paper. A key component of any argument in the conceding point. While the point need only be one small paragraph of the whole paper, at least it is there. By leaving out a conceding point, Moore is completely losing the interest off the people whom he demands change from. If Moore wishes to actually enact change in America (and it might already be too late for him), then he needs to stick to the facts and avoid the propaganda like he does a salad. In my opinion, Michael Moore is akin to a Mogwii, when Roger and Me first came out he seemed creative and interesting, but America has fed him after midnight and he has turned into a gremlin.

2 comments:

  1. A gremlin indeed. Moore does pray on the people who don't really know what's going on, but shouldn't be criticized for his weight. He seems to me to care about the problem, I really don't think he made this film to solve anything but to show that Capitalism is an issue in America. I see this film as more a morality film than political due to the emotional withdrawal, using the politics shown as proof that its not working as it had been on paper.

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  2. Jake, I really enjoyed reading your blog this week. You have very strong thoughts (obviously) and I agree with you on most of them. It is very true that he preys on the weak minded people who cannot really develop thoughts and opinions for themselves – people who are easily swayed in one direction or another, and who buy into all of the emotional crap that he throws out there for people to eat up. It makes me very sad as well to think that a lot of people believe what he is saying. Obviously capitalism is not a perfect system, and there will always be problems with it, however he does make some pretty outrageous leaps (my favorite of which was when he compared Capitalism to a natural disaster, comparable to Katrina). I also agree with you in the sense that if he wants to attempt to sway people, he needs much stronger arguments. At this point, he is either just making people who already agree with him, agree with him more, or make people who do not agree with him hate him more. Also I have to point out that the last sentence of your blog is just about the best I have read in any blog this year.

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